Classic "Laptops"

From: Scott Ware <ware_at_xtal.pharm.nwu.edu>
Date: Mon Nov 10 12:46:51 1997

On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Adam Jenkins wrote:

> A simple question - was the Texas Instruments Compact Computer - the CC-40
> - ever produced? I have some photos in a book here, and it looks neat, but
> I have never heard of them and have no idea if they are available
> second-hand.

Yes - I have one of these. Unfortunately, it seems to be full of cold
solder joints (there was even a loose transistor rattling inside the case
when I first got it) and I haven't had a chance to go over the board with
a soldering iron yet. It is much smaller than an M100 and has
calculator-like keys with grooves cut between them to make the keyboard
appear larger. The display is a single-line (40 character?) LCD. It has
been a while since I looked inside it, but I seem to remember 6 Kbytes of
static RAM. BASIC is in ROM, and there is a slot for an additional ROM
cartridge. There was also a "WaferTape" storage device (somewhat like a
Sinclair microdrive, IIRC) made for this machine.

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Scott Ware                      s-ware_at_nwu.edu
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